"When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship."
― Marlo Thomas

"I don't like and even resist, being broken wide-open. But, when the contents of my unconscious self-spill out of me and I sift through all the disowned parts of who I am... it's an uncomfortably enlightening and eye-opening experience. It feels a bit like emotional bloodletting. I guess every now and then, I need that release valve to open all the way...”
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― Jaeda DeWalt

"… love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."
- Thomas Merton